Is this the 'Socialist Moment' for Bernie Sanders?
The reason he has been doing so well against Hillary explains why he also will probably lose the race to her
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WHEN Republican Rand Paul was launching his presidential campaign last year, Time magazine ran a cover story that hailed the senator from Kentucky as the "most interesting man in politics" while pundits predicted that the presidential campaign of the staunch free marketer (who among other things wanted to abolish the Federal Reserve and the Central Intelligence Agency) marked the arrival of the so-called "libertarian moment" in American politics.
For the 53-year-old politician and physician, the commitment to libertarian or "classical liberal" ideas - that call for reducing the role of government in the economic and private spheres and for a non-interventionist foreign policy - was not only a matter of personal choice but a family tradition.
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